UBS, a global financial services firm, has a long and substantial record of engagement in contemporary art, and actively enables clients and audiences to participate in the international conversation about art t hrough its contemporary art platform. She has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. In 2015 she r eceived SFMoMA’s Contemporary Vision Award. In 2013 she received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.
In 2012, she was the recipient of t he Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts and the Wexner Prize. In 2009, she received the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the first Creative Excellence Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors, and the Centenary Medal of the Royal Photographic Society in London.
In 2006 she was made a 'Commandeur' in the 'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' by the French government. She has published several collections of photographs and is the r ecipient of many honours. to the National Portrait Gallery in London. Her work is held in museum collections from the M etropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. the International Center of Photography in New York the Brooklyn M useum the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam the National Portrait Gallery in London and the State H ermitage Museum in St. Exhibitions of L eibovitz’s work have been shown at museums and galleries around the world, including the National P ortrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Her large and d istinguished body of work encompasses some of the best-known portraits of our time. She became the magazine's chief photographer in 1973, and ten years later began working for Vanity Fair and then Vogue. 1949) has been making powerful images documenting popular culture since the early 1970s, when she began working as a photojournalist for Rolling Stone.